I am a no good, very bad, blogger.

I know T-T I've been SOOOO lazy. I was going to do Thusday excerpt this week, but I had a bajillion pounds of makeup work. I keep getting sick.
On the somewhat bright side, I've got 64k in Deadly Design =) I'm going to try to finish it by mid-april. Then I'll be back. Maybe I'll even start informing people I have a blog.... *shrugs*
You know what I discovered the other day? I had 44 views. Because people were going on google and clicking on pictures of Ian Somerhalder that were on my blog. In my opinion, that's awesome. So yeah *nods*
Now I'm rambling... Shoot.
Ok. Well, I kindof have a couple of book reviews. Unfortunately, none of them are glowing or even in the right format. But hey, it's something, right?

Once in a full moon

Honestly, this review is going to be mean.
And I'm just a little bias- When I read this, I was actually searching for flaws. Turns out, they were pretty easy to find.

I actually can't believe this got published. Rather than ranting about every little thing that was bad, I'm just going to list the good things about this book and what I learned.

-I learned that, if you're a bestseller, they'll publish anything else you write. Even if it's absolute crap.
-The main character had a thing for fingerless gloves. Awesome
-The characters stayed true to themselves.
-I learned that your editor doesn't have to read it before it gets published

That's it. I wish I could say it was great, because I wanted to. I read this because it was a werewolf book by a bestselling author, and therefore would be competition if I were to ever get published. I'm not quite pleased to say this book wouldn't be competition for a dead bug glued to a page.
For a start, the author had a knack for making things up. She completely ignores this guy, then when he shows up out of nowhere for no apparent reason and saves her life by doing pretty much nothing, she's suddenly been allured by him for forever. The dialogue was horriffic, and details she added didn't match up to what she said at the begging in of the book. The main character had more or less no flaws (you know, other than being a kissup and too freaking perfect) and the plot in general was so predictable. And the big thing that was supposed to be shocking? They dropped the suspense in less than five pages and did nothing with it. The end was seriously weak and cliche.

To be honest, I really only finished this book so I could say with complete certainty that this was one of the most rediculous books I've ever read.
Would I reccomend reading it? Only if you want to laugh your butt off at the stupidity. I'm almost tempted to reread Vampire Kisses- I really liked that one, but it makes me wonder if I just didn't notice how awful it was.
But hey. On the bright side, the cover's pretty.

Angelfire

From a writer's standpoint- it wasn't all that
From a reader's standpoint- it was awesome.

Allow me to explain ~Insert some dramatic gesture here~... Actually, I don't know how to explain, really, so I'm making a pros and cons list.


-Pros-

-The Story line was pretty good.
-The characters were well done, and at times very funny (though not my personal favorite of sardonic AND funny)
-Some of the descriptions were pretty good.
-It had some original moments

-Cons-

-The writer often used dialogue where imagery and thought would've surficed. Either that or a lot of dialogue was redundant.
-PREDICTABLE. Not cliche, really, but you saw everything coming from miles away. She just made the big shockers obvious from the start. No red herrings either. Juuuuuust preditable.
-It was way too fast in some places and dragged in others.
-The writer skipped months. In some cases, this is appropriate, but not during action-packed time.
-Some facts didn't match up. And I mean, they really didn't match up. For example, in the begining of the book it says she's been in this one class at school for months. Then it says it's september, meaning she started school around the begining of summer. Hence the statement "some facts don't match up".

In general, though, it wasn't a bad book. If I wasn't getting better at picking out good litterature, I would've been all over this. But, from a bitter unpublished girl's standpoint, the writing wasn't all that great. So the verdict is a dead even 5. Or three stars.



Ok... well, I know I said they weren't glowing, but that made me too sad. So I'm going to put a glowing one. Drum roll.....

River Maked

Ok, so I'm going to repeat what I said earlier just a bit.
If you don't read this series, you're stupid. Period.

Note to the crappy authors of the world: THIS is how you're supposed to write. I am totally in love with this series. Mercy's the most kick@$$ MC I've ever come across and there aren't words to describe how awesome Adam is ;)
So... yeah. Read Moon Called, then Blood Bound, then Iron Kissed, then Bone Crossed, then Silver Borne, and then read this. Or I'll eat you 0-0

(The review is being cut off here because the rest of it was me rambling on and on and on and on about how awesome it was and talking about my favorite parts. Go read the books.)








Ok. Now I feel like I've done something useful today. I'll try to blog more often now XD

Peace, Love, and Vam-

OH WAIT!!! My birthday is in 9 days ^-^ Oh yeah. I'm trying to get my mom to let me ditch school the next day so I can get City of Fallen Angels *faints*
Ok, Now I'm done. Peace, Love, and Vampire Diaries peeps!!!